
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 5, 1990                   TAG: 9003052195
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

LEE ATWATER RECOVERS AFTER COLLAPSE

Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fainted while speaking at a fund-raising breakfast today and was rushed to a local hospital, a spokeswoman said.

Atwater recovered immediately after he collapsed, said Leslie Goodman, RNC communications director.

She said Atwater, 39, had not been ill and that his collapse was a "total surprise."

He was being kept at George Washington Hospital for tests.

Atwater was attending a fund-raising breakfast for Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel.

Goodman said a doctor at the event "immediately attended to him" and that an ambulance was quickly summoned.

"He is up and about at the hospital, but he is going to remain there to undergo a series of tests," she said.

"We don't have any more information. He's coherent. He knows what's going on," she added.

by CNB